Reclaim the Lanes 24.3.2011

‘Reclaim the Rains’ more like, but the terrible weather didn’t stop a large turnout meeting at Peace Park in South Newtown. A literal floatilla of mobile sound systems and art installations ventured down the drenched lane ways parallel to King street. I made the mistake of pushing a Sunny Bin Wheelie Bin Sound system and carrying my electronic midi guitar “The Mash axe”. My band ‘The Sample Minds’ couldn’t set up for fear of wrecking all our equipment. A few of the bands and stages along the way couldn’t set up in the rain but by the time the parade reached its destination at Camperdown Park it was amazing to see so many diverse sound systems in attendance, and they stayed their through torrential rain for hours into the darkness.